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The modulatory role of bioactive compounds in functional foods on inflammation and metabolic pathways in chronic diseases (2025)
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Chronic diseases are major contributors to global morbidity and mortality. More than 70% of deaths worldwide are caused by chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. These diseases are characteri... Read More about The modulatory role of bioactive compounds in functional foods on inflammation and metabolic pathways in chronic diseases.

The role of the gut microbiota in health, diet, and disease with a focus on obesity (2025)
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The gut microbiota has been increasingly recognised as a critical determinant of human health, influencing a wide range of physiological processes. A healthy gut microbiota is essential for maintaining metabolic, immune, and gastrointestinal homeosta... Read More about The role of the gut microbiota in health, diet, and disease with a focus on obesity.

Maternal iron deficiency assessed by serum ferritin and birth outcomes in mainland China (2025)
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Iron deficiency is prevalent among pregnant women because of the increased maternal iron requirements. Uncorrected maternal iron deficiency can lead to adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess se... Read More about Maternal iron deficiency assessed by serum ferritin and birth outcomes in mainland China.

Physical activity, exercise, and mental disorders of older adults (2024)
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Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019 (2024)
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Background
Transport injuries (TI) remains one of leading causes of death in children in China. This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of disease burden and associated risk factors of TI among children aged 0–14 years in China, utilizing dat... Read More about Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019.

Trajectory patterns of macronutrient intake and their associations with obesity, diabetes, and all-cause mortality: A longitudinal analysis over 25 years (2024)
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Over the past decades, China has been undergoing rapid economic growth, which may have significantly influenced the dietary patterns and health status of the Chinese population. Our study aimed to assess the associations of potential macronutrient tr... Read More about Trajectory patterns of macronutrient intake and their associations with obesity, diabetes, and all-cause mortality: A longitudinal analysis over 25 years.

Editorial: Exploring sustainable strategies for active compounds from low-quality crops: Extraction, package, and development (2024)
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With the explosive growth of the global population and the rapid development of agriculture and food technology, people have shown a huge demand for high-quality and diverse food (Tripathi et al., 2019), followed by the rapid development and expansio... Read More about Editorial: Exploring sustainable strategies for active compounds from low-quality crops: Extraction, package, and development.

Pregnant women at risk for iodine deficiency but adequate iodine intake in school-aged children of Zhejiang Province, China (2024)
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The median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) of school-aged children has been commonly used as a surrogate to assess iodine status of a population including pregnant women. However, pregnant women have higher iodine requirements than children due to... Read More about Pregnant women at risk for iodine deficiency but adequate iodine intake in school-aged children of Zhejiang Province, China.

Low iodine nutrition knowledge in Chinese breastfeeding women despite adequate iodine status (2024)
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There has been a scarcity of evidence about iodine nutrition knowledge among women during pregnancy and lactation. The aim of this study was to determine women’s iodine knowledge and the relationship between knowledge and iodine status during pregnan... Read More about Low iodine nutrition knowledge in Chinese breastfeeding women despite adequate iodine status.

Chinese university students’ preferences for physical activity incentive programs: A discrete choice experiment (2023)
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Purpose: This study aims to explore and compare Chinese university students’ preferences for various physical activity motivation programs. Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in China from February 25 to March 25, 2022. Parti... Read More about Chinese university students’ preferences for physical activity incentive programs: A discrete choice experiment.

Editorial: Nutrient requirements and diabetes during pregnancy (2023)
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Using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and e-health literacy(e-HL) to investigate the tobacco control intentions and behaviors of non-smoking college students in China: A cross-sectional investigation (2023)
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BACKGROUND: Non-smoking college students are starting to smoke in increasing numbers, which shows that their tobacco control situation seems not optimistic. The UTAUT and e-HL are commonly used models and theories to predict health behaviors, while t... Read More about Using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and e-health literacy(e-HL) to investigate the tobacco control intentions and behaviors of non-smoking college students in China: A cross-sectional investigation.

Maternal iodine intake and adherence to iodine supplement recommendations in a group of Chinese women: The results from the WIN cohort study - CORRIGENDUM (2023)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665123000356, published by Cambridge University Press, 8 March 2023.

In the original publication of this article, the wrong figures had been provided for the mean iodine intake plus iodised salt in pregnant and la... Read More about Maternal iodine intake and adherence to iodine supplement recommendations in a group of Chinese women: The results from the WIN cohort study - CORRIGENDUM.

The impact of COVID-19 on global health journals: An analysis of impact factor and publication trends (2023)
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Background COVID-19 has affected research productivity across all areas of knowledge. Current evidence suggests that COVID-19 has had a blockbuster effect on journal impact factors (JIFs) and publication trends, while little is known on global health... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on global health journals: An analysis of impact factor and publication trends.

Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perceptions regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study from China (2023)
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Aim: To analyze the level of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perception regarding COVID-19 among Chinese residents 1.5 years after the pandemic. Subject and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with both online and paper questio... Read More about Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perceptions regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study from China.

Media use degree and depression: A latent profile analysis from Chinese residents (2023)
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Background: Previous studies have emphasized the media as an essential channel for understanding information about depression. However, they have not divided groups according to the degree of media use to study their differences in depression. Theref... Read More about Media use degree and depression: A latent profile analysis from Chinese residents.

Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to heightened levels of anxiety and stress levels towards the health threats posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At least 10% of those infected were health workers. In addition, a large proportion o... Read More about Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Background: China has been still suffering from high burden attributable to tuberculosis (TB) and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). TB patients are at high risk to get HAIs. Evidence-based guidelines or regulations to constrain the rising HAIs... Read More about Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation (2022)
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Since March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has been a global pandemic for more than one years due to a long and infectious incubation period. This paper establishes a heterogeneous epidemic model that divides the incubation period into infectious and non-infec... Read More about Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation.

Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA (2022)
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Severe outcome particularly death is the largest burden of COVID-19. Clinical observations showed preliminary data that deficiency in certain trace elements, essential for the normal activity of immune system, may be associated with worse COVID-19 ou... Read More about Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA.